This must be something new because the planes never moved across the screen before. No I haven't been hitting the sauce, yet! lol But I sat down to check activity at KMSP and I'm watching the plane icons moving in almost real time. Did I miss an story about Flightaware updating its software? either way I think it's really cool. Nice job Flightaware! :) (flightaware.com) More...
If you’ve ever peeked into the cockpit while boarding a commercial flight, you might not have realized that the pilots are in the midst of one of their highest times of workload. Many tasks must be accomplished prior to pushing back from the gate, and it takes a great deal of coordination between the pilots, flight attendants, airline operations, and ATC to prepare for flight. In this article, I’ll walk through a typical sequence of events that leads up to your departure. While you’re sitting at… (flightaware.com) More...
Hired two years ago as a copilot for SkyKing, a small operation with 10 jets, Crowley made his first flight as captain on Jan. 28 from West Palm Beach to Worcester, Mass. His parents rode along. (www.sun-sentinel.com) More...
Chicago-based Boeing Co. said on Tuesday it signed its largest ever commercial airplane order with Indonesia's Lion Air in a deal worth $22.4 billion. Boeing said Lion Air, Indonesia's largest carrier by passenger volume, has ordered 230 airplanes, including 201 737 MAXs and 29 next-generation 737-900 ERs. Lion Air will also acquire purchase rights for an additional 150 airplanes, Boeing said. The announcement was made in a statement at the Singapore airshow. In November, Lion Air announced the… (www.chicagotribune.com) More...
A Dallas woman says TSA agents repeatedly asked her to step back into a body scanning machine at DFW International Airport. “I feel like I was totally exposed,” said Ellen Terrell, who is a wife and mother. “They wanted a nice good look.” When Ellen Terrell and her husband, Charlie, flew out of DFW Airport several months ago, Terrell says she was surprised by a question a female TSA agent asked her. “She says to me, ‘Do you play tennis?’ And I said, ‘Why?’ She said, ‘You just have such a cute… (dfw.cbslocal.com) More...
The F-16 that suddenly appears off our left wing is obvious. It wags its wings as it goes by, and its engine, in afterburner, shakes the sky like an aerial earthquake. An identical airplane that trails a few miles behind and slightly above us, however, isn’t visible to us at all. It’s there to intervene if we take some sort of hostile or evasive action. (www.aopa.org) More...
According to the Broward County Sheriff's Department, a man stole a Rolex watch valued at $6,500 from another passenger at the security checkpoint of the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida. The event was captured on TSA video surveillance.... (www.thefloridanewsjournal.com) More...
The Garmin G5000H glass cockpit for twin-turbine, medium-lift helicopters was announced at Heli-Expo in Dallas Feb. 12. It combines widescreen displays with voice command, 3-D spatial audio that helps a pilot differentiate among several communication sources, and touchscreen technology. (www.aopa.org) More...
In the winter of 1962, the nation needed a hero. Americans had yet to recover from the Soviet Union’s launching of the first spacecraft, Sputnik, in October 1957 — a rude jolt to our confidence as world leaders in all things technological. The space race was on. Soon after he took office in 1961, President John F. Kennedy had thrown down the challenge to send men to the Moon by the end of the decade. But the Russians still set the pace, boastfully. They launched a dog into orbit, then the first… (www.nytimes.com) More...
The nation's largest airlines had one of their best years for getting passengers to their destinations on time in 2011, despite unexpected snowstorms and Tropical Storm Irene, the U.S. Department of Transportation reported Tuesday. (travel.usatoday.com) More...
Not to mention the $100 per flight "fee" (fees = taxes). We have airlines removing pilowing, blankets, magazines, even counting the number of peanuts in bags. All in the name of saving money, now we get to pay the national debt. (www.ainonline.com) More...
Sen. Charles Schumer Sunday said he will introduce legislation this week that will require the Transportation Security Administration to put passenger advocates in every major airport after three elderly women, including one from Long Beach, were strip-searched by screeners. "Passengers who feel their rights are about to be violated have nowhere to turn," said Schumer, who will introduce the Restoring Integrity and Good Heartedness in Traveler Screening Act this week. "The RIGHTS… (www.newsday.com) More...
MegaDo, an event sponsored by American Airlines and its Oneworld alliance partners to give the hardiest of fliers insight on everything from why flights are canceled to a ride down a plane's emergency exit chute. (travel.usatoday.com) More...
Two men from Moscow are in custody after they allegedly interfered with the flight crew of an aircraft (DAL31) bound for New York City from the Russian capital on Friday. The plane landed in Happy Valley-Goose Bay. Labrador RCMP boarded the aircraft and arrested the pair. Sergey Yaremenkov, 42, faces charges of mischief and uttering threats under the Criminal Code, and endangering the safety and security of persons on an aircraft under the Aeronautics Act. Nikolai Merenkov, also 42, faces one… (www.cbc.ca) More...
